LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sovereign Council Of New France, Lower Canada, Clara Brett Martin
5 Apr 2016
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The origin of the legal profession goes back to rome (cicero as an example, pro murena), in rhetoric. In the imperial period, (44 bc to 410 bc) we see the profession of lawyers emerging: an paid agent allowed to appear in the place of another person. With emerging modern society with a more complex division of labor and standardization of professions, we see emerging law as: a full time occupation, university program, association, state licensing laws and ethics. Law becomes subject of market control : the successful assertion of unchallenged authority over some area of knowledge and its professional instrumentalization (p. 241) An edict of edward 1 in 1292 created a efective monopoly over the profession. The growing independence of law as a discipline versus other authorities (theology and humanism written large), especially in. The appointment of sir william blackstone in cambridge in 1758 made. Law accessing the rank of an oicial discipline belonging in university curses.
